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Hospitals are boring

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    it is neither of those things

    it is the dumb butt

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    also I have been in the hospital a lot and have never had a rude or inattentive nurse

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Just wanted to say that morphine by IV made me vomit everywhere.

    And vomiting after having your chest cracked open hours earlier kind of sucks

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  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    I'm getting a liver ultrasound soon and I really hope it's not fucked.

    I had a liver biopsy done the day after I went to PAX East a few years ago, so I got to extend my vacation by a few days.

    It turned out to be nothing serious, just that I had elevated liver function tests so they wanted to rule out anything major. They're much closer to normal now though.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Darmak wrote: »
    Just wanted to say that morphine by IV made me vomit everywhere.

    And vomiting after having your chest cracked open hours earlier kind of sucks

    they didn't give you an anti nausea drip with the happy liquid

  • Darth_MogsDarth_Mogs Registered User regular
    I've been in hospitals a lot over the years for family members, but I've thankfully never been in the hospital myself. I'm not sure how I would handle it. Probably not well.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Darth_Mogs wrote: »
    I've been in hospitals a lot over the years for family members, but I've thankfully never been in the hospital myself. I'm not sure how I would handle it. Probably not well.

    it can be oddly liberating

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    HeadCreeps wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    I'm getting a liver ultrasound soon and I really hope it's not fucked.

    I had a liver biopsy done the day after I went to PAX East a few years ago, so I got to extend my vacation by a few days.

    It turned out to be nothing serious, just that I had elevated liver function tests so they wanted to rule out anything major. They're much closer to normal now though.

    mine have been elevated for years now. granted I'm fat... But they've never checked it despite my pain in the abdomen.

    I also don't have a gal bladder so....

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    they tend to give me the heavy pain medication too often. I get hooked on them easy.

    I'd complain but they'd give me NSAIDS. those hurt my tummy and make me vomit.

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    Just wanted to say that morphine by IV made me vomit everywhere.

    And vomiting after having your chest cracked open hours earlier kind of sucks

    they didn't give you an anti nausea drip with the happy liquid

    I don't know, I was so fucked up I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on around me. I mostly remember them taking out the breathing tube (I reflexively swallowed when they did that and choked) and the drainage tubes, plus all the vomiting. The catheter wasn't shit after all that

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    I was in the hospital for an invasive procedure recently and while I was still doped up i apparently shouted out the open door that "my nurse is a big fat jerk".

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    I was in the hospital for an invasive procedure recently and while I was still doped up i apparently shouted out the open door that "my nurse is a big fat jerk".
    You ever taken ambien?

    I couldn't sleep after the flight to PAX06 and woke up in the fucking shower in the Bellevue Hilton....

  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    Never.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Also if they ever give you a shot of dilaudid or whatever for pain, go to sleep like they tell you too.

    Shit gave me the shakes because I tried to stay awake.

  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    sitting a computer chair for a long time is a bad thing don't do it

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Xehalus wrote: »
    sitting a computer chair for a long time is a bad thing don't do it
    I'm pretty sure I'm giving myself Sciatica or something from doing this yeah.

  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    oh boohoo an abscess in your poor little leggy poo

    try 3 over the course of 2 months on your butts

    I giggled at this I think cuz you said butts


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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    smsmmffhskhkhk I'm giggling again

    butts

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    After being with my dad in the ER room during our thanksgiving disaster, i can certainly understand why hospitals are both boring and germ infested nightmares.

    Be sure to shower in bleach afterwords.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    I was in the hospital for brain problems last month.

    It was the one across the river...

    Next to the Refinery...

    The smell was overwhelming.

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    Scrubbing the ever loving shit out of yourself really just puts you a greater risk for infection. Just take a normal ass shower. Your normal skin bacteria is pretty good at protecting you from outside shit.

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    I've been fairly lucky, the last time I had to be at the hospital longer than a couple hours was when my wife gave birth.

    Hunter, please don't die. You're one of the good ones here.

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Thinking about it, in January it'll be a year since the surgery. I should send the doctors and nurses that took care of me a gift basket and thank-you cards. The nurses were wonderfully nice and did an awesome job keeping me alive, and the surgeons made me into a cyborg so

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  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    I ignored a cyst for 14 years. Get on my level.

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    BYToady wrote: »
    I ignored a cyst for 14 years. Get on my level.

    I've had one on my testicle for about a year. Doctor gave it an ultrasound and said I don't have cancer. So that was good news.

  • cabsycabsy the fattest rainbow unicorn Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    Darmak wrote: »
    Just wanted to say that morphine by IV made me vomit everywhere.

    And vomiting after having your chest cracked open hours earlier kind of sucks

    When I had my gall bladder removed they gave me pain meds and anti nausea because pain meds almost universally make me ill, then I woke up immediately after surgery and couldn't get back to sleep in recovery despite encouragement and had breakthrough pain so more pain meds, then more anti nausea because those pain meds made me really nauseous, then a little more pain meds because it still hurt, and then I finally started to fall asleep and as soon as I'd fall asleep I'd stop breathing and my o2 levels would tank and alarms would go off and they would wake me up and that went on for nearly an hour before they sent me home with instructions not to fall asleep for at least another 90 minutes

    there is nothing quite like being given so many overlapping medications you forget how breathing works

    also Pip I assume it isn't a pilonidal "cyst"? right on your tailbone area? cause those are the fuckin devil

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  • Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    The marine who features in this story shall remain nameless, both for his dignity and his sanity.

    I worked pretty hard in an Amphibious Assault Battalion, most of my fellow crewmen did as well, but nobody worked harder than the mechanics in our company. Specifically one mechanic (who we shall refer to as Tom) was the hardest working sonovabitch you've ever met; the guy was part-machine himself.

    However, one of the side effects of being in coveralls or Nomex gear for days on end is that you don't really pay attention to things like a heat rash on your thigh or a tiny ingrown hair on your ass cheek. Those kinds of things are usually no big deal, but they often cause you to ignore other things which are kind of a big deal.

    In this instance, Tom experienced what is known as an anorectal/perianal abscess; the pores on the skin in his crotch had become clogged from all of the sweat and lack of proper shower facilities out in the boondocks, so much so that what should have been a zit or a blackhead turned into a GIANT GAPING HOLE IN HIS TAINT, DRIPPING PUS AND BLOOD.

    Tom spent several days having the 'fluids' drained out of him and the necrotic flesh irrigated to prevent any further complications; the wound itself was packed with what amounts to medical-grade-shoelace soaked with antibiotics and antiseptics. Some time during this period, Tom lost all of his normal sunny humor and it returned in the form of particularly sharp one-liners.

    'I don't think I'll tell my father that I have a shoestring tampon in my man-gina.'

    'Better bust out the maxxi-pads, I think it's gonna be a heavy flow today.'

    'So, this is what it feels like to be the cell-block-bitch.'

    Tom couldn't unwind with a cold beer after work because the alcohol would fuck with his medication. He couldn't eat anything that wasn't on a very specific list of rather bland foods; everything had to be sliced into little chunks to go easy on his digestion and the eventual evacuation of said foods. But the thing that pissed him off the most was his restriction to light duty: no exercise that would agitate the wound, no work other than desk work.

    When he finally got all healed up, we all went on a rather long PT run up and down the beach to welcome him back.

    You have never seen a man so happy to be run around until he almost passes out.

  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I had cancer once.

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    Once

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    I haven't had to deal with hospitals since I got my tonsils and adenoids removed in like 2nd grade. It wasn't fun but it wasn't that terrible either. When I woke up I really had to pee but I couldn't talk because they had just charred off the inside of my throat. The nurse understood my wild-eyed look and frantic crotch pointing though.

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  • Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    I have been a patient at a hospital twice.

    The first time, I was seven years old and had to have a CT scan from nearly cracking my skull open.

    The second time, I was twenty-two and had been a passenger in a car accident where my date flipped her vehicle trying to get onto the on-ramp for the freeway; you can barely see a faint scar on the outside edge of my right hand where the laceration was pretty bad, so bad that they didn't release my from the ER until I had spoken to a surgeon. Said surgeon had me do a full battery of articulation tests to make sure I hadn't damaged nerves or torn any muscle or connective tissue.

    Kids, having a designated driver is an awesome idea and a good habit to have; you just need to make sure the driver stays sober.

  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    Send designated drivers that decide to drink anyway to double prison.

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  • CorporateRedCorporateRed Wooooooo! Registered User regular
    SLyM wrote: »
    I haven't had to deal with hospitals since I got my tonsils and adenoids removed in like 2nd grade. It wasn't fun but it wasn't that terrible either. When I woke up I really had to pee but I couldn't talk because they had just charred off the inside of my throat. The nurse understood my wild-eyed look and frantic crotch pointing though.

    Kids always get away with shit.

    My wild-eyed, frantic crotch pointing always makes people "uncomfortable" and leads to my "being escorted from the premises" with threats of "calling the police".

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  • Bé ChuilleBé Chuille Registered User regular
    Only ever spent the night in hospital once, for kidney stones. Which is something I really would not like to repeat. It took a good couple of hours for me to pass enough urine for a sample, and because CT was backed up they couldn't scan me for a while. Which meant that I couldn't get the good drugs, because they didn't know if they wanted to put me under or not.

    Eventually they broke up and passed but I was sent home for a week of bed rest and tons of tramadol and diphene. The doctor looking after me was a total sweetie, too.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    oh boohoo an abscess in your poor little leggy poo

    try 3 over the course of 2 months on your butts

    No see we feel sorry for hunter because he had an unfortunate accident whereas you were dumb enough to do the same dumb thing three times in two months.

    Like write it down or something dude.

  • ThesmileyemoThesmileyemo Registered User regular
    I had my first experience with a hospital a couple months ago. One day as I was leaving my research methods class I had a slight headache. I'm talking really mild, so I didn't take any pain killers. I figured it would just go away by itself. Later that night it had worsened so I decided to take a couple tylonol and go to bed, figuring it would be better by morning.

    After a fairly restless night, I got up the next morning and my head was just pounding. I took a couple more tylonols and spent the day in bed trying to recover. At this point the painkillers were doing nothing (I was taking about 600mg of Ibuprofene every 4 hours, and didn't feel a lick of difference.) It didn't really help that I had a Focus Group to moderate for my research class the next day. So I was just trying to get ready for this focus group while my head was pounding so hard I could barely even think. I spent the night throwing up, which was a weird experience. I didn't feel sick, it was just my head hurt to the point that I had to puke.

    The next day I woke up to the worst pain I have ever felt. But god dammit, there was no way I was about to not go to my focus group. I talked to my group about having someone else moderate since I was in no shape. Before I headed to school I went to a walk-in clinic and the doctor gave me some heavier painkillers and told me if they don't help I need to go to the hospital. I managed to make it through the focus group, and took city transit home. Eventually I made it back and tried to sleep. A few hours later my dad came home from work, so I asked him to take me to the hospital. I just couldn't take the pain anymore, so off we went, with me cringing at every bump in the road.

    Around 6 p.m. we made it to the emergency room and I went through there questions (I don't remember the details, the entire thing is a blur to me now) and eventually made it to a waiting room. After about an hour they call me in, stick the IV needle in my arm, and send me back out to wait. At this point it's probably somewhere between 7 and 8. I remember thinking it won't be long now since they already stuck some crap in my arm, now we just need to get some drugs in there!

    How wrong I was, it wasn't until about midnight that I was called to go sit on a bed and wait for the doctor for an hour. Around 1 a.m. the doctor comes in, we talk breifly, he asks me to rate my pain from 1-10 (I went with 10). He then left me alone, and went to get my painkillers ready.

    Eventually I was lead to the IV chair thing, and he gave me some fluid to help with dehydration (I'd been throwing up pretty regularly at this point) and some sort of painkiller. It took about an hour until the bag was empty. It had no effect on my pain at all. So the doctor decides to amp it up a bit. This time it actually worked a bit! My pain went from a 10 way down to a three or something like that. Sadly, by the time anyone checks up on me, the pain has returned in full force, although I suppose it's better it came back while I was still in the hospital.

    So now it's around 3 a.m. my head has been hurting for three days and it seems like there is no end in sight.

    Then the doctor decides it's time to pull out the big guns and gives me steroids and morphine. I suddenly felt this warmness and a weird tightness in my shoulders. It was weird. I passed out within a minute or so, and woke up to see the nurse injecting some more morphine into the IV, which seemed like a nice thing for him to do. I woke up around 5 a.m. and my mom, who had stayed with me the entire night because she's apparently more awesome than I thought, drove me home and all was well.

    As a result of this I now always carry some sort of painkiller with me just in case I feel a headache coming on. I don't know if I could handle going through all that again.

    Oh, and I almost forgot. Turns out it was just me getting my first (hopefully last!) migraine! I had always heard they were more than just a bad headache, but god damn that was ridiculous!

  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    I had my first experience with a hospital a couple months ago. One day as I was leaving my research methods class I had a slight headache. I'm talking really mild, so I didn't take any pain killers. I figured it would just go away by itself. Later that night it had worsened so I decided to take a couple tylonol and go to bed, figuring it would be better by morning.

    After a fairly restless night, I got up the next morning and my head was just pounding. I took a couple more tylonols and spent the day in bed trying to recover. At this point the painkillers were doing nothing (I was taking about 600mg of Ibuprofene every 4 hours, and didn't feel a lick of difference.) It didn't really help that I had a Focus Group to moderate for my research class the next day. So I was just trying to get ready for this focus group while my head was pounding so hard I could barely even think. I spent the night throwing up, which was a weird experience. I didn't feel sick, it was just my head hurt to the point that I had to puke.

    The next day I woke up to the worst pain I have ever felt. But god dammit, there was no way I was about to not go to my focus group. I talked to my group about having someone else moderate since I was in no shape. Before I headed to school I went to a walk-in clinic and the doctor gave me some heavier painkillers and told me if they don't help I need to go to the hospital. I managed to make it through the focus group, and took city transit home. Eventually I made it back and tried to sleep. A few hours later my dad came home from work, so I asked him to take me to the hospital. I just couldn't take the pain anymore, so off we went, with me cringing at every bump in the road.

    Around 6 p.m. we made it to the emergency room and I went through there questions (I don't remember the details, the entire thing is a blur to me now) and eventually made it to a waiting room. After about an hour they call me in, stick the IV needle in my arm, and send me back out to wait. At this point it's probably somewhere between 7 and 8. I remember thinking it won't be long now since they already stuck some crap in my arm, now we just need to get some drugs in there!

    How wrong I was, it wasn't until about midnight that I was called to go sit on a bed and wait for the doctor for an hour. Around 1 a.m. the doctor comes in, we talk breifly, he asks me to rate my pain from 1-10 (I went with 10). He then left me alone, and went to get my painkillers ready.

    Eventually I was lead to the IV chair thing, and he gave me some fluid to help with dehydration (I'd been throwing up pretty regularly at this point) and some sort of painkiller. It took about an hour until the bag was empty. It had no effect on my pain at all. So the doctor decides to amp it up a bit. This time it actually worked a bit! My pain went from a 10 way down to a three or something like that. Sadly, by the time anyone checks up on me, the pain has returned in full force, although I suppose it's better it came back while I was still in the hospital.

    So now it's around 3 a.m. my head has been hurting for three days and it seems like there is no end in sight.

    Then the doctor decides it's time to pull out the big guns and gives me steroids and morphine. I suddenly felt this warmness and a weird tightness in my shoulders. It was weird. I passed out within a minute or so, and woke up to see the nurse injecting some more morphine into the IV, which seemed like a nice thing for him to do. I woke up around 5 a.m. and my mom, who had stayed with me the entire night because she's apparently more awesome than I thought, drove me home and all was well.

    As a result of this I now always carry some sort of painkiller with me just in case I feel a headache coming on. I don't know if I could handle going through all that again.

    Oh, and I almost forgot. Turns out it was just me getting my first (hopefully last!) migraine! I had always heard they were more than just a bad headache, but god damn that was ridiculous!

    Careful with taking Ibuprofen for migrains, 1 of the awesome side effects of ibuprofen overdose is intense headache!

  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    Last time I stayed at hospital was 9 years ago, wherein they told me I had a blood sugar of around 950, which is roughly the combined average of ten human beings.

    Turned out I had diabetes!

    Good times, man.

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  • GoldenSeducerGoldenSeducer AAAAAUGH!! Registered User regular
    My last hospital visit was in late 2007. I checked myself in for brain problems. Stayed in inpatient for a week.

    I decided that the other brain patient that was giving me eyes was way harder to deal with than hallucinations. At least hallucinations don't try to snuggle up on me.

    Also, it does not help that Maine psychiatrists say, "I don't know what your doctor in New York is on, but that medication doesn't work at all!" That's... that's not professional or very helpful, lady.

    I was still attending the medical office program at Job Corps in Maine at that point, and after I got out of inpatient, I asked if I could go home and do the rest of my course work there and mail it in. Thankfully, because all of the staff never had any issues with me, they said yes.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    I haven't spent a night in hospital since I was around six months old.

  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    Yeah the last time I spent any significant amount of time in a hospital for myself was when I was like 4 and had to have a piece of brick removed from my arm

    Since then I've stayed a couple of times with the wife for 2 births and some outpatient stuff. I prefer one hospital in town over the other because I can remember its wifi password

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